“Governor Cuomo, your energy policy should promote policies that encourage the developmentof renewable energy and energy efficiency projects that do not threaten public health and the environment,” the letter reads. “We ask you to not lift the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in New York State and instead embrace a renewable energy policy that will make us proud to be New Yorkers andcontinue to restore our faith and trust in State government.”

Other groups who signed the letter include the New York Public Interest Research Group, Riverkeeper and the Working Families Party.

The letter essentially makes two points: Hydrofracking and gas-drilling are environmentally dangerous and not beneficial to curbing climate change, and that the technique is “stifling” investment in renewables. (The letter cites a pairof studies of hydrofracking’s impact on climate change, which have been the subject of debate and conflicting findings for months.)